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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Postage stamp, Dominican Republic, 3 cents, commemorating refugee aid efforts

    1. David Pearlman collection

  2. Postage stamp, Austria, 3 schilling, commemorating World Refugee Year

    1. David Pearlman collection

    3 Schillings, issued by the Postal Office of Austria, illustrating the emigration of refugees. It was issued on the occasion of tWorld Refugee Year, 1959-1960.

  3. Records relating to the Committee for Refugee Education

    Contains information about the Committee for Refugee Education, teachers working for the committee, and survivors of the Holocaust who eventually became students in the committee's program.

  4. Peaked cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Cardboard cutting template brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this peaked template to shape sections of animal fur for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, Rosa Rubel, helped Isidor, Ida, an...

  5. Peaked cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Cardboard cutting template brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this peaked template to shape sections of animal fur for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, Rosa Rubel, helped Isidor, Ida, an...

  6. Rectangular cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Cardboard cutting template brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this rectangular template to shape sections of animal fur for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, Rosa Rubel, helped Isidor, Id...

  7. Set of scale weights brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn562199
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Depth: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) b: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Depth: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) c: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) d: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) e: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) f: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) g: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) h: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) i: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)

    A set of 7 metric, silver and brass colored metal apothecary weights in a fitted wooden box brought with master furrier Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. The weights were used to measure small quantities of bulk goods on a balance scale. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. I...

  8. Rittershausen fur sewing machine brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn519158
    • English
    • 1911-1938
    • a: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Depth: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) b: Height: 26.750 inches (67.945 cm) | Width: 35.750 inches (90.805 cm) | Depth: 19.875 inches (50.483 cm) c: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm) | Depth: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm)

    Rittershausen furrier’s sewing machine and table brought with master furrier Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. This durable sewing machine was designed to join several heavy animal pelts into a garment using thick, treated thread and a heavy duty, horizontal needle. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he esca...

  10. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Ruth Phillip found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  11. Monogrammed dinner knife brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee

    1. Nellie Wiesenthal Fink family collection

    Dinner knife engraved with Ernestine Unger Wiesenthal’s initials and taken with her when she emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to London, England in 1939. The threaded design and script used for the initials match another knife from the same donor (2008.204.5), in addition to a ladle (.4) in that collection as well. The knife handle is likely made of silver, though it does not bear any marks to verify that. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Following the passage of the Nuremberg laws in 1935, Ernestine’s son, Fritz, began looking for places where the family ...

  12. Henckels dinner knife brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee

    1. Nellie Wiesenthal Fink family collection

    J.A. Henckels table knife taken with Ernestine Wiesenthal when she emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to London, England in 1939. A partial maker’s mark is visible, but is missing the twin mark that identifies when a Henckels piece was manufactured. The knife handle is likely made of silver, though it does not bear any marks to confirm that. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Following the passage of the Nuremberg laws in 1935, Ernestine’s son, Fritz, began looking for places where the family could immigrate as life became increasingly difficult for German Jew...

  13. Notebook cover used by a Kindertransport refugee girl

    1. Alice and Peter Masters collection

    Notebook cover belonging to Alice Ebserstark who, with her sisters Ella and Josephine, escaped Czechoslovakia in 1939 on a Kindertransport to England arranged by Nicholas Winton.

  14. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Ella Nussbaum found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  15. Refugee girls at the de Monbrison chateau in France

    Refugee girls living at a chateau owned by Count Hubert Conquere de Monbrison in Quincy-sous-Senart, located about 30 km south of Paris. De Monbrison and the Princess Irena Paley (a niece of the last Russian czar who later became Monbrison's wife) used the chateau to house refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars. In 1939 de Monbrison was approached by his children's Jewish physician, who was a member of the board of the OSE, and asked whether he would take in a group of forty German Jewish refugee children. The count agreed and the Kinderstransport of boys arrived on July 4, 1...

  16. Circular white tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Maud Michal Beer family collection

    White linen tablecloth used by Shimon Beer's family in prewar Brno, Czechoslovakia. It was one of several tablecloths, 2012.342.6-11, preserved by his aunt Bertl in Great Britain. Brno was annexed and occupied by Nazi Germany in March 1939. Shimon, 19, left in December 1939 for Palestine, where he joined the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. His parents, Julius and Hildegarde, were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor, and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where they were murdered. His brother Pavel survived both camps.

  17. Rectangular white tablecloth saved by a by Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Maud Michal Beer family collection

    White linen tablecloth used by Shimon Beer's family in prewar Brno, Czechoslovakia. It was one of several tablecloths, 2012.342.6-11, preserved by his aunt Bertl in Great Britain. Brno was annexed and occupied by Nazi Germany in March 1939. Shimon, 19, left in December 1939 for Palestine, where he joined the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. His parents, Julius and Hildegarde, were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor, and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where they were murdered. His brother Pavel survived both camps.

  18. Hand painted Torah binder brought with German Jewish refugee family

    1. Eric Junker family collection

    White wimpel (or Torah binder) with a multi-colored, painted inscription created for Eric Junker. It was brought with the family when they left Aschaffenburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1937, and displayed at Eric's funeral in 2012. A wimpel is used as a binder to keep a Torah scroll tightly wound when not in use. It was a German custom to make a wimpel from the swaddling cloth used at the circumcision ceremony (brit malah), which was performed when a male infant was eight days old. The cloth was usually hand-decorated by the mother or another close family member. After the Nazi...

  19. Green dotted cream handkerchief received by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

    Silk handkerchief with green dots, embroidered Ruth, sent to Ruth Mondschein for her 11th birthday by Marie, the family's housekeeper in Vienna. Ruth was living in the Netherlands where her parents had sent her on a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Austria on December 10, 1938. Her father, Markus, and Marie were arrested at the family's home on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. Marie, who was not Jewish, was quickly released. Markus was sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was released on the condition that he leave the country. He arranged for Ruth and her brother, Walter, 6,...

  20. Blue dotted white handkerchief received by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

    Silk handkerchief with blue dots, embroidered Ruth, sent to Ruth Mondschein for her 11th birthday by Marie, the family's housekeeper in Vienna. Ruth was living in the Netherlands where her parents had sent her on a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Austria on December 10, 1938. Her father, Markus, and Marie were arrested at the family's home on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. Marie, who was not Jewish, was quickly released. Markus was sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was released on the condition that he leave the country. He arranged for Ruth and her brother, Walter, 6, ...